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Using Ethereal to Bypass Dialer Software

Intro

A while back I was getting sick of using the dialer software for NetZero and having that damn icon in my taskbar. At first I tried just using my plain username and password in Windows dialup networking but it didn’t work. So I used Ethereal to capture what the dialer sent and after a little trial and error I figured it out.

So if you have dialup and your ISP forces their software down your throat, try this method to fool them.

I used almost exactly the same methodology to bypass my ISP's dialer. Except in my case, I searched for my username rather than a PPP PAP packet since I wasn't sure what authentication scheme was being used. Also, my dialer was PPPoE and not good ol' PPP. A slightly more detailed version of what I did (or at least why I did it) can be found here

Cheers,
cgkanchi

PS: Good work! Though a little more explanation of the concepts involved would be nice.